Background
Raines, Howell Hiram was born on February 5, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of W.S. and Bertha Estelle (Walker) Raines.
( Howell Raines has gone fly fishing with presidents of t...)
Howell Raines has gone fly fishing with presidents of the United States and legends of the sport, as well as relatives, childhood friends, and his two sons. Casting deep into the waters of his tumultuous and momentous life - his storied career at the New York Times, his painful divorce, his seven-year feud with his father, his memorable friendship with fisherman/philosopher Richard C. Blalock - Raines offers his now-classic meditation on the "disciplined, beautiful, and unessential activity" of fly fishing and the challenges and opportunities of middle age. A witty and profound celebration of life's transitions and the serene pleasures of the outdoors, Raines's memories and observations offer wisdom for the younger man, comfort for the older man, and rare insight for women into the often puzzling male psyche. "Hear me, my brothers," Raines says. "Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even adulthood."
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(The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith tha...)
The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration. Here, too, are voices from the "Down-Home Resistance" that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the "traditions" of the Old South—voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.
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( Raines's coming-of-age novel, set in depression-era Ala...)
Raines's coming-of-age novel, set in depression-era Alabama, combines romance and tragedy to evoke a time and place distant in memory but alive in the great tradition of American storytelling. In 1932 in Milo, Alabama, Prohibition was on, the depression was on, Franklin D. Roosevelt was riding his campaign train across America, and Bluenose Trogdon--a man who had a real calling for making whiskey just like his daddy before him--had devoted customers as far away asBirmingham. One of the people he was on good terms with was Brant Laster, just home from The University of Alabama and the first of his family to graduate. For Brant it was a time to renew ties of love and friendship--with his kind, upright father, who had a suitable Scripture to go with every sale he made at his general store; with Bluenose; and with Brant's girl, slender, pale-haired Blake King. Blake--in her own view liberated by her college years in Atlanta, though in Brant's eyes corrupted by the men she met there--stirs him to the thought that "every man is his own Iago." But it is Bluenose--boozy, profane, lustful, wise, comic, racked by passion for the wife who shuns him--whose inevitable fate finally sets Brant on his journey into the world.
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("Lost fish," writes Howell Raines, "chasten us to the kno...)
"Lost fish," writes Howell Raines, "chasten us to the knowledge that we are all, in each and every moment, dwindling. Imagine my surprise when I discovered well into my sixth decade that losing fish can prepare us for a blessing as well as for pain."Confronting loss -- of an elusive fish or something larger -- is at the heart of "The One That Got Away, " the graceful sequel to Raines's much-loved, bestselling memoir "Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis, " published to great acclaim in 1993. With the same winning combination of reminiscences, anecdotes, philosophy and fishing lore, his bold new memoir covers the eventful years in this latest passage of his life, and the realization that in relinquishing his former identity as a newspaperman he has actually gotten what he wanted, just in the most unlikely way.In wry and witty prose, Raines shifts between fishing vignettes and personal reflections on his childhood, his second marriage, his relationships with his two sons, the trajectory of his career at "The New York Times" and his move toward old age. At the center of his narrative is his most thrilling fishing adventure -- an epic battle with a marlin he hooked and fought for more than seven hours in the South Pacific -- which comes to symbolize his growing understanding and acceptance of the unpredictability of luck, love, lies and life, and how the unexpected can, in fact, be an opportunity to make life more interesting.Raines's wonderful descriptions of streams, people and fish; his passion for angling and writing; and his wise and perceptive commentary on the vagaries of his own life combine to create a profound book -- one of undeniable appeal and uncommon heart.
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(The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith tha...)
The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.Here, too, are voices from the "Down-Home Resistance" that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the "traditions" of the Old South--voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.
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Raines, Howell Hiram was born on February 5, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of W.S. and Bertha Estelle (Walker) Raines.
Bachelor, Birmingham Southern College, 1964. Master of Arts, University Alabama, 1973.
Reporter, Birmingham Post-Herald, 1964-1965; reporter, Station WBRC-television, Birmingham, 1965-1967; reporter, Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News, 1968-1969; reporter, Birmingham News, 1970-1971; political editor, Atlanta Constitution, 1971-1974; political editor, St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, 1976-1978; Atlanta bureau chief, New York Times, 1978-1980; White House correspondent, New York Times, 1980-1982; national political correspondent, New York Times, 1982-1984; deputy Washington editor, New York Times, 1985-1986; London bureau chief, New York Times, 1987-1988; Washington editor, New York Times, 1988-1992; editorial page editor, New York Times, New York City, since 1993.
( Raines's coming-of-age novel, set in depression-era Ala...)
(The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith tha...)
(The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith tha...)
( Howell Raines has gone fly fishing with presidents of t...)
("Lost fish," writes Howell Raines, "chasten us to the kno...)
(My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Rememb...)
(Reprint)
Married Laure Susan Woodley, March 22, 1969 (divorced). Children: Ben Hayes, Jeffrey Howell. Married Krystyna Anna Stachowiak, March 8, 2003.